[TheForge] Cure for a bad burn?

[rfertner at cox.net]

You're right about the Silverdene. It's great stuff, but it's prescription only.
Serious burns, you go get medical help. Otherwise, I would use lots of cool water and aloe vera. 
Burns need to be kept clean. Every burn I've treated with aloe has healed quicker and often doesn't even form a blister.

Rob
---- Saint Phlip <phlip at 99main.com> wrote: 
> What that will do is dry it up and put more crap in it, so that if you
> DO go to the Dr, they'll hafta debride it deeper than they'd prefer-
> at a great expense in pain to you.
> 
> First Aid for any closed burn is to immerse it in cold water. \Even
> open burns are to be covered with a sterile (if possible) cloth and
> cold water applied, (the cloth is there to prevent tissue being washed
> away).
> 
> If you want something that REALLY works on burns, get your Dr to give
> you a prescription for Silvadene.
> 
> http://www.drugs.com/mmx/silvadene.html
> 
> That stuff is wonderful. I tested it a couple years ago, when I had
> managed to get more or less matching nasty burns on both hands (I was
> teaching, ands I grabbed to prevent the kid for getting a bad burn, so
> I figured I'd test the stuff. I put the Silvadene on one burn (the
> worst of the two) and just used cold water and cussing on the other
> one. The one with the silvadene healed in half the time. I now keep it
> handy at all times, despite the need to get a Dr to prescribe it for
> me.
> 
> On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 8:21 AM, Ron Childers <ron at munlaw.net> wrote:
> > I received an e-mail stating a cure for burns is to immerse the burned
> > area in a box of flour. (Don't wet the burn first). Keeping the flour in
> > the refrigerator is supposed to be even better. Has anyone ever heard of
> > this, or tried it? I have kept aloe plants for years but they keep
> > dying.
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Saint Phlip
> 
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> 
> Heat it up
> Hit it hard
> Repent as necessary.
> 
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